Rural youth need agricultural skills

What do you think about skills for rural and urban youth? Are
they the same? The answer is positively different because it
depends on related factors such as the environment of youth,
education, technology, and so forth. Here we will elaborate what
kind of skills rural youth have.

Rural and urban areas have quite the same characteristics.
Poverty is sometimes identical with the rural area, predominantly
in low and some middle income countries. This stereotype cannot
easily be lost because most people who live in rural areas, work in
agricultural and forestry sectors with low salaries. Youth who live
in rural areas also face disadvantages due to limited skills they
harbor to counterbalance the same skills of urban youth. The
limited skill of rural youth will limit them to look for an
appropriate job. So, the youth perception is that living in rural
areas does not give them the potential to find a good job.
Furthermore, youth migrate to urban areas to look for better jobs;
and in rural areas, agricultural lands are abandoned because there
are no young people who want to be farmers.

Despite the above, gender disparity still occurs in rural areas
mainly because young women are especially isolated and marginalized
due to accessing a good education. Directly and indirectly, the
involvement of young women will detract the golden opportunity to
sustain a better life than before. Although they have a chance to
stay in school, the lack of knowledge and assets to reach the right
education still haunts them to get proper skills. UNFAO has
developed a programme for developing skill of youth in rural area
in the realm of agriculture. By giving training about agriculture,
on how embody sustainable agriculture, is good thing for skills
development. Set theories also should be prompted to be given to
them. Why should be agriculture firstly to youth lived in rural
area? Like the mentioned above, rural area is close to
agricultural. Agricultural development is the best way for economic
growth to address the problem of skill lacking for youth in rural
area. However, the kind of agriculture that will be evolved is not
traditional, but it is needed an ancillary thing known as
technology. Youth should know how to use technology theoretically
and practically. Other things needed are land, labor, and capital.
In Indonesia, the government provides an integrated mechanism to
develop skills and technologies in agriculture, namely agricultural
intensification or PANCA USAHA TANI. It is proven, given the
benefits for economic, social, and ecology to the farmers.